They Are Watching You (And Logging Every Mile You Drive) #politics #edutainment #politicalsatire
The short version: Political Words for Adults lays out how Flock Safety's ALPR network gets abused by insiders, and why that's a bipartisan red flag.
Our Take
Credit where it's due: Political Words for Adults cuts through the 'it's just for solving crimes' talking point and asks the question that actually matters — who's searching the database, and why. Cameras logging your plate at 2am outside a clinic or a church aren't a hypothetical. Once that data exists, it exists for anyone with a login, and we've already seen officers across the country run plates on exes, coworkers, and rivals with zero criminal predicate. That's not a bug in the system. That's the system working exactly as designed, because Flock's audit trails rely on trust, not hard technical limits.
The bipartisan angle the video raises is worth sitting with. This isn't a left-vs-right issue anymore — it's a 'do you trust every cop, in every department, forever, with your travel history' issue. Small-town councils across the political spectrum have started asking that question out loud, and a lot of them are answering no.
If this video got you looking over your shoulder, don't stop at watching — check our camera map to see what's already logging your plates nearby, and hit up our take-action page for how to push back at the local level, where these contracts actually get decided.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Political Words for Adults, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.